Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force-in-Being. Tommy White's day starts at 7:10 o'clock with pushups in the living room of his duplex quarters in Fort Myer, Va., takes him early (8:25) to work in Suite 4E924 of the Pentagon, where he is soon stirring up memorandums and directives-green for LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining...
...Another Higgins commercial enterprise that falls well within the rules: she owns a "substantial share" of a new Howard Johnson restaurant (segregated) in Cherrydale, Va., just outside Washington...
Arlington, Va...
...Va. last April. Since he did not have his degree (he was one credit short in physical education), the camp tagged him "clerk-typist" and thought no more about him. Then last fortnight Shult's old professor, Geneticist Carl C. Lindegren, let out a blast. The private, said the professor, "is the outstanding mathematical genius I have encountered in 30 years," and the Army was "letting him wither on the vine...
...money from Actress Betty Grable, getting caught by agents disguised as gardeners. There were absorbing glimpses of malefactors from George ("Machine-Gun") Kelly to Fritz Kuhn and his Nazi German-American Bund, as well as behind-the-scenes sleuthing heroes at work in the FBI's Quantico, Va. laboratories. From secret files came a sequence of rare excitement. Filmed by G-men through a transparent mirror in his office wall, it showed German Spy Frederick Joubert Duquesne clandestinely removing diagrams of the M-1 rifle from his sock...